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News flash! We taped a very cool show a few weeks back at Chautauqua here in Boulder County. With us were great musicial guests plus author/environmental advocate Bill McKibben, who accepted the E-Chievement Award. The show itself will air in two parts this November, but to hear about the incredible grassroots proactive event called ‘350.org’ that Bill [...]

Autumn is in the air here in eTown. The leaves are turning, it’s Indian Summer and life is good. And we’ve got a great encore broadcast for you this week, featuring one of my all time favorite vocalists: Critically-acclaimed Joan Osborne returns to eTown with some songs, both old and new. She rocks out with [...]

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This week’s eTown show with David Gray and Harper Simon features a lovely clash of two beautiful songwriters with a finale that, if you’re familiar with David Gray’s catalog and Johnny Cash, should be quite familiar.  eTown was lucky to have David Gray on our stage belting his powerfully controlled voice and the audience certainly couldn’t get [...]

Welcome to the first week of Fall! With this week’s eTown broadcast, we invite back one of my all time favorites:  the phenomenal singer-songwriter David Gray makes a return visit to eTown. Wow! He is so amazing.  David first visited eTown back in 2000 when he was just launching what has since, as you know, [...]

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Listen to eTown this week on your local radio station or podcast and you’ll hear one of my favorite shows to come to the eTown stage – The Del McCoury Band and Eddie Kowalczyk.  I’ve always been a huge fan of Live and their ballads from Throwing Copper, Secret Samadhi and the other albums that [...]

There’s a fantastic eTown broadcast/podcast for you to check out this week, featuring the return of popular bluegrass legend, Del McCoury and his fine band. Del (celebrating his 50th year in bluegrass) and his amazing group (which includes sons Ronnie on mandolin & Robbie on banjo, plus Alan Bartram on bass and the amazing Jason [...]

Hello everyone, First, something sad: I was so sorry to hear that Mike Seeger recently passed away after a long illness. He is such a historic figure in the folk music scene. He was a fine musician; and a very, very nice man. He was a long time friend of Nick’s and more recently mine [...]

Like so many of you, I was saddened by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy last week. As many have already stated, I mourn the passing of such a thoughtful and passionate advocate on behalf of the little guy. Senator Kennedy was a true statesman. There are precious few left of them these days. He [...]